Dai Bingguo

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Dai Bingguo
戴秉国
Chairman of Jinan University
In office 15 November 2013 – 15 November 2019
President	Hu Jun → Song Xianzhong
Preceded by	Qian Weichang
State Councilor of the People's Republic of China
In office 17 March 2008 – 16 March 2013
Premier	Wen Jiabao
Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Leading Group
In office April 2005 – August 2013
General Secretary	Hu Jintao → Xi Jinping
Foreign Minister	Li Zhaoxing → Yang Jiechi
Preceded by	Liu Huaqiu
Succeeded by	Yang Jiechi
Personal details
Born	(1941-03-31) March 31, 1941 (age 83) Yinjiang County, Guizhou, Republic of China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Alma mater	Sichuan University China Foreign Affairs University

Dai Bingguo (simplified Chinese: 戴秉国; traditional Chinese: 戴秉國; pinyin: Dài Bǐngguó; born March 31, 1941) is a Chinese politician and professional diplomat. Since 2008, Dai has emerged as one of the foremost and highest-ranking figures of Chinese foreign policy in the Hu Jintao administration.

A graduate of Sichuan University, majoring in Russian language, Dai was instrumental in the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and the Soviet Union. Between 1989 and 1991 Dai served as the Chinese ambassador to Hungary. He then served in a succession of roles in the Department of Foreign Affairs. He served as a State Councilor, director of the general office of Central Foreign Affairs Commission of CCP Central Committee, an office that acts as the primary foreign affairs organ of the Chinese Communist Party, and director of the general office of the National Security Leadership Group of the CCP Central Committee, in which he serves in the capacity as a national security advisor to the CCP General Secretary.